TOM CLARK: 12-gauge rapture

Untitled [Eptesicus serotinus, last flight before winter sleep]: photo by Paolo Guerra, 2 October 2017

bat in autumn (on a night of fires)

Choked by the rapture
as if damp cloth
pressed over face

while breathless dancing
white ash sprites
lit up the smoke flying off

One of the rusted barbed

wire knots took flight

into the deep black night sky

#16 Brussels, Belgium | by Alison Adcock

#16 Brussels, Belgium: photo by Alison Adcock, 7 October 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Trinidad, Cuba 2016 www.theworldthroughaphotograph.com | by Spiros Soueref

Trinidad, Cuba | 2016: photo by Spiros Soueref, 14 December 2016

#13 Dhaka | 2017: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 18 August 2017

Where there's smoke... and then the rest of the cliché | by susan catherine

Where there's smoke... and then the rest of the cliché [Burbank]: photo by susan catherine, 8 October 2017

Untitled: photo by ashnolo, 4 September 2017

[Untitled]: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Coffey Park, #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Fountaingrove homes burn in #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Fountaingrove burns #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Historic Round Barn burns in #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Coffey Park, #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Coffey Park area of #SantaRosa #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

#TubbsFire burns homes in exclusive Fountaingrove neighborhood @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

#TubbsFire #SantaRosa fountaingrove structures lost. @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Fountaingrove area of #SantaRosa hundreds of homes lost, if not thousands. #TubbsFire @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE @SantaRosaFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Arby's burns in north #SantaRosa #TubbsFire: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

#SantaRosa disaster. Hopper Ave @NorthBayNews: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Home burns, Glen Ellen Sonoma county @NorthBayNews @CAL_FIRE #Firestorm: image via Kent Porter @kentphotos, 9 October 2017

Los Angeles | 2016 | by Rinzi Ruiz [street zen]

Los Angeles | 2016: photo by Rinzi Ruiz, 12 January 2016

Ferris wheel [Kobe, Japan]: photo by minoru karamatsu, 26 September 2017

Night Storm [Oklahoma or Texas panhandle]: photo by Sandra Herber, 16 May 2017

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Lightning strike to sea over Miramare di Rimini, Italy: photo by Magica, 2005

Late afternoon in the beach | by Giacomo Vesprini

Late afternoon in the beach: photo by Giacomo Vesprini, 20 September 2017

Untitled [Batu, Indonesia]: photo by Aliioss E, 1 September 2017

DSC05245 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 1 September 2017

Night disposal [Hobart]: photo by Mariusz S, 10 July 2017

Foggy night in Toledo | by Robert Saucier

Foggy night in Toledo: photo by Robert Saucier, 30 August 2017

From cell phone. | by noppadol.maitreechit

From cell phone [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 30 August 2017

Untitled [Haridwar, Uttarakhand, India]: photo by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, 19 September 2012

West Mesa, Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, September 2017

Moss Point, Mississippi: photo by Missy Prince, 2 February 2017

Elephant Butte Lake, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, July 2017

Taos church, four stones: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 October 2017

IMG_3800: photo by selin1968, 1 August 2017

LA Harbor, derelict cabin cruiser | by ADMurr

LA Harbor, derelict cabin cruiser [San Pedro]: photo by Andrew Murr, 7 October 2017

Lights left [Chinatown, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 5 October 2017

Untitled [Mid-Town Belvedere, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, August 2017

Untitled [Parkside, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, September 2017

Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 25 September 2017

Louisiana, 2011: photo by Austin Granger, 28 September 2017

Speaker, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 5 February 2014

the day the Emperor came (Annpachi-cho, Gifu prefecture, Japan): photo by Stephen Cairns, 30 September 2012

searching for Sugimoto. Hiroshi Sugimoto has a fantastic series of images featuring the interiors of American theatres. The series is borne from a simple idea: what would happen if a camera were brought into a movie theatre and the shutter kept open for the length of the film. The answer is equally simple but brilliant. After two hours of entertainment nothing remains -- nothing but the light. This is a huge pachinko LED sign. Pachinko is a Japanese gambling pastime. I leave you to draw your own conclusions: photo by Stephen Cairns, 26 October 2013

Lurid [Djupavik, Iceland]: photo by efo, 4 October 2017

The landscape. San Francisco CA.: photo by Robert Ogilvie, 6 October 2017

Wind kommt auf. Itertal an Waldrand. [Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia]: photo by glasseyes view, 11 September 2017

Perspective d'avenir | by Robert Saucier

Perspective d'avenir [Adirondacks, NY state]: photo by Robert Saucier, 30 June 2009

Gautier, Mississippi: photo by Missy Prince, 12 March 2017

Militaria -Marina Peenemünde | by glasseyes view

Militaria - Marina Peenemünde. left behind - not back in the USSR. [Mecklenburg-Vorpommern]: photo by glasseyes view, 16 September 2017

24/7 ER: photo by Scott Brennan, 7 October 2017

DSC_9078: photo by ilan Ben yehuda, 28 September 2017

© Spiros Soueref, Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2017 www.instagram.com/spiros_soueref www.spirossoueref.com | by Spiros Soueref

Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2017: photo by Spiros Soueref, 20 August 2017

Sapa by night: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 6 August 2017

. | by Vratislav Indra Art and Photography

Untitled: photo by Vratislav Indra, 5 July 2017

angels of the street

Here with family [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 October 2017

Street | Dhaka | 2017 | by Sohail Bin Mohammad

Street | Dhaka | 2017: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 23 February 2017

Lady in red [London]: photo by Nicola Ferrara, 6 October 2017

Photo | via Instagram: photo by Julian Master, 2 October 2017

227 [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 8 October 2017

Lunch time [Sicily]: photo by Julie Hrudova, 18 September 2017

"One in ten people can not read a newspaper but everyone can read a photograph.” —Eddie Adams: image via Eddie Adams Workshop @EAWorkshop, 6 October 2017

Second at Dryades: photo by d_horton, 28 February 2017

Untitled [Taos]: photo by Andrew Murr, 9 October 2017

Robert Service [Houston]: photo by Rusy Singh, 24 June 2017

Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think. #RobertService: image via Sinetos Quotes @sinetosquotes, 13 February 2017

Untitled [Tokyo]: photo by Kristin Van den Eede, 3 September 2017

Fuera cánones. | by mynikonismyfourtheye

Fuera cánones: photo by Chinaski., 10 April 2017

#09 IMG_2317 Surrealism: photo by Spiros Loukopoulos, 24 June 2017

shinjuku, tokyo: photo by wire_paladinSF, 10 April 2014

shinjuku, tokyo: photo by wire_paladinSF, 10 April 2014

Untitled [Tokyo]: photo by Kenta Nakamura 14 May 2016

Untitled [La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona]: photo by Dimitris Makrygiannakis, 31 May 2017

Untitled [Madrid]: photo by Gustavo Gomes, 13 July 2017

Untitled [Milan]: photo by STUART PATON, 30 August 2017

@Mahabalipuram: photo by Vijayaraj PS, 17 August 2017

3 comments:

TC9 October 2017 at 17:46
Bob Dylan: Brownsville Girl (New Danville Girl), 1984
Unknown10 October 2017 at 06:30
"Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt." That about sums it up! I had forgotten that good tune. Many thanks, for this and recent posts, Tom. After a long summer of fire and smoke here I hope the rains come fast to California.
TC10 October 2017 at 13:00
Thanks, Tom. And there are actually people who believe that line is "surrealism"!

Yow, the fire and smoke, too close for comfort, step out the door and well... actually hurts to breathe.

Many tiny sharp nails in the lungs made up of everything that was living to the north of here, now burnt turned into tangible visible particulate matter, floating everywhere in the air.

Can't recall whether you'd hit town yet at the time the Mt St Helens debris plume settled over the front range and deposited a fine particulate coating over everything. Went to get out bike in early morning unaware of the eruption, discovered a great mystery spill of ash upon the mechanism.

This, a bit like that, plus heavy foglike enveloping clouds of perfume-y smoke.

North wind dropt and shifted round to east for one day, today, due to shift back round to north and gusty in the night and again ongoing, nervous time, ground covered with tinder dry treefall litter of ancient giant sequoia sempervirens, which has seen a lot, yet not quite seen it all... or so it seems, these last few spooky climate breakdown seasons.

(Must be surrealism!)

Monday, 9 October 2017

12-gauge rapture

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